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. This pea resembles 
Nott’s Excelsior. in habit American 
Wonder, being more uniform and productive and 
earlier. Seeds are green, wrinkled and square at 
the end like American Wonder. 
pact growth; productive and 
of fine favor. Good market variety. 
A dwarf wrin- 
It is early, very prolific, and of excellent flavor. 
Requires no sticks. 
s A white wrinkled variety of fine 
Eugenie. flavor; it is of the same season as 
the Advancer. Cannot be too highly recommended 
for family use. 
Darcy or Dwain, elephonc 
Half Dwarf, stocky, healthy and vigorous. HEx- 
ceedingly productive. 
Avery good 
Dwarf Blue Imperial. S280 if cant- 
ed early; pods are large and well filled. 
Royal Dwar Martowlat vie are 
Marrowfat, but of dwarf habit. 
Black2Hyed M airowtats sera 
for the market than any other. It is very produc- 
tive, and when young, quite tender. Grows about 4 
feet high. 
Large White Marrowfat. Simiar,te 
: ‘ the above 
variety, except that it grows about two feet taller 
and is less productive. 
Gradus or Prosperity. This is the earli- 
est, large pod- 
ded wrinkled pea in cultivation. The vine has 
heavy stems with dark green leaves, and grows 3 
feet in height. It produces uniformly large pods, 
measuring 4to 4% inches long, nearly round and 
well filled with large handsome peas. 
This kind is 
. W Hardy, vigorous and 
Prince of ales. uprightin habit. Flavor 
of first quality, which is true of nearly all white 
wrinkled peas. Height 2% feet. Seed white, wrinkled 
and flattened. 
Early Washington, Early May 
which are all the same thing, is 
or Frame, about ten days later than the Extra 
Early. It is very productive. and keeps longer in 
bearing than the foregoing kind. Pods a little 
smaller. Very popular about New Orleans. 
Karly Tom Thumb. Very dwarfish and 
g quite productive. 
Can becultivated in rows a foot apart: requires no 
branches or sticks. 
A wrinkled pea of 
American Wonder, 22732 oe 
prolific, early, of fine quality, and comes in after 
the Extra Early. 
: This variety is used either 
Melting Sugar. Shelled or cooked in the 
pod, like string beans, and when young is very ten 
der and sweet. 7 
A variety of which the whole 
Dwart Sugar. pod can be used after the 
string is drawn off from the back of the pod. 
Has the same quality as the 
Tall Sugar. foregoing kind, only grows 
taller, and the pods are somewhat larger. 
: Since the introduction of this sort 
Claudit. four or five years ago, it has rapidly 
grown in favor and is now superseding Alaska, The 
peas are the same color and average about one anda 
half times as large the pods being in about the same 
proportion. This means that less peas have to be 
picked to make a barrel. The quality of Claudit 
Peas for sale on the market is fully equal to Alaska 
orany other blue peas, and its keeping qualities are 
better. The vines usually grow 2% feet high, bearing 
seven to nine peas to the pod, and retaining their 
freshness a long time after picking. For early 
market planting cannot be surpassed anywhere. 
Field or Cow Peas. 
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CULZER There are a great many varieties of Cow Peas, different in color and growth. They 
* are planted mostly for fertilizing purposes and are sown broadcast; when in a good 
stand, and of sufficient height, they are plowed under. TheClay Peais the most popular. There are several 
varieties called crowders; which do not grow as tall as the others, but produce a great many pods, which are 
used green, the sameas snap beans, andif dried, like dried beans, makea very good dish. The crowders 
are of an oblong shape, almost pointed at one end; they are on an average larger than the other Field Peas. | 
Lady Peas are small aud white, they are generally planted between corn, so that they can run upon it. 
Dry, 
they are considered the very best variety for cooking. The Clay and Unknown Peas produce the most 
vines. 
White Sugar Crowder or Forty 
1D) These are largely used in the Southern 
ay. States for early Peas. They grow upright, 
bushy, and under ordinary conditions do not need 
support, very prolific and grow larger than ordinary 
Cow or Field Peas; very compact in pods; peas are 
flattened from being so close in pods. 
Red Sugar Crowder. Same as White 
except in color. 
Speckled Sugar Crowder. 
cept in color. 
This is one of the best peas 
Clay Cow. for our Southern country, being a 
vigorous grower and an abundant bearer, very moist, 
giving proper nourishment to the soil. Begins to 
bear about two months after belng planted. 
Dark gray in color; robust 
Whippoorwill. growth, but of dwarfish 
habit: considered by some equal to other varieties of 
peas; this, however, is a matter of taste. 
Same as 
White ex- 
Y A strong, vigofous 
Canada Field Peas. 3.3 C2), “gianted 
for green manure to plow under in the spring. Makes 
an excellent winter growth when sown in fall; very 
useful for fodder. Sow 100 to 150 lbs. per acre broad- 
cast. 
Similar to the Unknown in 
Wonderful. every respect, including habit of 
srowth, color, etc. it is considered by those ac- 
customed to all varieties to be somewhat superior to 
the Unknown. 
This pea is a cross be- 
Unknown Cow. tween Clay and Crowder 
Peas, making it a very desirable variety for both fer- 
tilizing purposes and eating peas; in color almost 
same as that of Clay and a little larger in size than 
the Clay Peas. e - 
. This pea is pink in color and 
Red Ripper. very small in size, but is a vig- 
orous grower and good bearer; is considered a good 
plantation variety and is usually planted in corn 
and cane. ; 
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